Comments on: America’s carbon footprint and the world’s oil reserves http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SADIE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-77011 SADIE Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:03:16 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-77011 Perfect...Masterpiece Theater meets Monty Python in S.F. - an off-Broadway hit is born. Storyline: The matriarchs having spent their holiday together discover that they mistook hot flashes for global warming. I'll leave the sub-plot and snappy dialogue to the creative in this room. Perfect…Masterpiece Theater meets Monty Python in S.F. – an off-Broadway hit is born.
Storyline: The matriarchs having spent their holiday together discover that they mistook hot flashes for global warming.

I’ll leave the sub-plot and snappy dialogue to the creative in this room.

]]> By: Zhombre http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-77004 Zhombre Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:59:47 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-77004 "... large straw hats to ward off exploding heads ..." what a Monty Pythonesque image. I can see Eric Idle & Terry Jones in drag wandering arm in arm through mock-Perugian streets. "Ooooo, watch where you step, dearie. That one exploded and left a terrible puddle." "Poor things! Wish there was something we could do." "Well, there isn't, so let's just go see the Duomo." “… large straw hats to ward off exploding heads …” what a Monty Pythonesque image. I can see Eric Idle & Terry Jones in drag wandering arm in arm through mock-Perugian streets. “Ooooo, watch where you step, dearie. That one exploded and left a terrible puddle.” “Poor things! Wish there was something we could do.” “Well, there isn’t, so let’s just go see the Duomo.”

]]> By: David Foster http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-77001 David Foster Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:45:36 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-77001 "picturesque little mud villages by the bends of pristine rivers, ruled by matriachies of loving grace—safe, clean, meek, meatless, joyless, gutless and bored out of our minds"...there's a Poul Anderson SF story about a guy who has an incurable disease, so he's put in suspended animation in the hope that a cure for his disease will be found in the future. When he wakes up, they cure him with no problem--but the society is run along Early Hippie lines, with everyone practicing simple crafts and folk-dancing, etc. Guy is so bored he loses his mind. Not a problem they know how to fix, so they put him back in suspended animation... “picturesque little mud villages by the bends of pristine rivers, ruled by matriachies of loving grace—safe, clean, meek, meatless, joyless, gutless and bored out of our minds”…there’s a Poul Anderson SF story about a guy who has an incurable disease, so he’s put in suspended animation in the hope that a cure for his disease will be found in the future. When he wakes up, they cure him with no problem–but the society is run along Early Hippie lines, with everyone practicing simple crafts and folk-dancing, etc.

Guy is so bored he loses his mind. Not a problem they know how to fix, so they put him back in suspended animation…

]]> By: SADIE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-76999 SADIE Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:03:03 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-76999 <I>mankind permanently stuck in picturesque little mud villages by the bends of pristine rivers, ruled by matriachies of loving grace—safe, clean, meek, meatless, joyless, gutless and bored out of our minds.</I> OMG...it read like a promo for Masterpiece Theater, where dreary and lifeless English ladies pack up their umbrellas and shattered pride for a summer holiday (preferably Provence, but they may have to settle for suitable lodging in Italy). Stay tuned for Part II. Camille and Andrea go shopping for large straw hats to ward off exploding heads. Alisterically Martel! LOL mankind permanently stuck in picturesque little mud villages by the bends of pristine rivers, ruled by matriachies of loving grace—safe, clean, meek, meatless, joyless, gutless and bored out of our minds.

OMG…it read like a promo for Masterpiece Theater, where dreary and lifeless English ladies pack up their umbrellas and shattered pride for a summer holiday (preferably Provence, but they may have to settle for suitable lodging in Italy). Stay tuned for Part II. Camille and Andrea go shopping for large straw hats to ward off exploding heads.

Alisterically Martel! LOL

]]> By: Charles Martel http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-76996 Charles Martel Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:07:33 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-76996 <blockquote>Then oil and natural gas are renewable sources of energy? In the words of Montgomery C. Burns, 'Excellent!' The enviro-neo-luddites’ heads will explode in ineffable rage and confusion."</blockquote> Confusion until an Andrea Dworkin of the enviros steps forward, raging that nature herself conspires against us by producing an evil, foul-smelling, unaesthetic, déclassé, damn-it-to-hell CHEAP source of energy. What's at stake for the enviros? Nothing less than a mortal setback to the green dream of delivering us all (except for our leaders) to Camille Paglia's vision of a mankind permanently stuck in picturesque little mud villages by the bends of pristine rivers, ruled by matriachies of loving grace---safe, clean, meek, meatless, joyless, gutless and bored out of our minds.

Then oil and natural gas are renewable sources of energy? In the words of Montgomery C. Burns, ‘Excellent!’ The enviro-neo-luddites’ heads will explode in ineffable rage and confusion.”

Confusion until an Andrea Dworkin of the enviros steps forward, raging that nature herself conspires against us by producing an evil, foul-smelling, unaesthetic, déclassé, damn-it-to-hell CHEAP source of energy.

What’s at stake for the enviros? Nothing less than a mortal setback to the green dream of delivering us all (except for our leaders) to Camille Paglia’s vision of a mankind permanently stuck in picturesque little mud villages by the bends of pristine rivers, ruled by matriachies of loving grace—safe, clean, meek, meatless, joyless, gutless and bored out of our minds.

]]> By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-76994 Bookworm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:49:16 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-76994 If only we could harness the energy from that explosion. If only we could harness the energy from that explosion.

]]> By: Zhombre http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-76993 Zhombre Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:43:55 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-76993 Then oil and natural gas are renewable sources of energy? In the words of Montgomery C. Burns, "Excellent!" The enviro-neo-luddites' heads will explode in ineffable rage and confusion. Then oil and natural gas are renewable sources of energy? In the words of Montgomery C. Burns, “Excellent!” The enviro-neo-luddites’ heads will explode in ineffable rage and confusion.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-76992 Ymarsakar Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:34:36 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-76992 http://tagn.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hauling-bronze-through-forgotten-realms/ A great example of market dynamics. Very entertaining story. http://tagn.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hauling-bronze-through-forgotten-realms/

A great example of market dynamics. Very entertaining story.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-76985 Ymarsakar Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:29:21 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-76985 It is only with efficiency, individual liberty, and economic prosperity that people devote efforts to pollution control. It's kind of hard to justify clean living when you can't fed the family. It's hard to justify two cars when there ain't no damn roads. It's hard to justify feeding some fat cat corruptocrat hundreds of US dollars when your family is starving. Decadence is only a byproduct of prosperity and success. But success is also a byproduct of human dignity and rights being exercised. It is only with efficiency, individual liberty, and economic prosperity that people devote efforts to pollution control. It’s kind of hard to justify clean living when you can’t fed the family. It’s hard to justify two cars when there ain’t no damn roads. It’s hard to justify feeding some fat cat corruptocrat hundreds of US dollars when your family is starving.

Decadence is only a byproduct of prosperity and success. But success is also a byproduct of human dignity and rights being exercised.

]]> By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/09/14/americas-carbon-footprint-and-the-worlds-oil-reserves/comment-page-1/#comment-76984 Bookworm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:26:37 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=8439#comment-76984 David: You sound like Bjorn Lomberg, the skeptical environmentalist who makes exactly the same excellent point. David: You sound like Bjorn Lomberg, the skeptical environmentalist who makes exactly the same excellent point.

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